- How much does substance misuse support cost in the Fylde council area?
- Agencies in the Fylde council area quote by the hour after an assessment, so there is no single price. The Homecare Association calculates that a provider needs to charge at least £34.42 an hour in 2026-27 to pay careworkers the statutory minimum for all their working time and run a compliant business. Two half-hour visits a day at that rate is roughly £481.88 a week. Lancashire paid £21.06 an hour for the care it commissioned in 2023-24.
- Will the council pay for substance misuse support in the Fylde council area?
- Lancashire can arrange and fund care after a needs assessment, which is free and which anyone can request. What you contribute depends on a separate financial assessment. It paid providers an average of £21.06 an hour in 2023-24, the 73rd lowest of 150 councils in England. The Homecare Association's minimum sustainable price is £34.42 for 2026-27. Those are different years, so treat the pair as context rather than a like-for-like gap. What a council pays shapes which agencies will take council-funded work at all.
- Which substance misuse support services in the Fylde council area are rated best?
- 3 of the 3 services in the Fylde council area carry a published CQC rating and 3 of those, 100%, are rated Good or Outstanding. None is rated Outstanding. A rating describes the service on the day it was inspected, so check the report date as well as the word.
- Is the Fylde council area well served for substance misuse support?
- 3 of the 24 home care services in the Fylde council area are registered to support this, 13%, against 12% across England. That is about average. Registration is permission rather than specialisation, so it sets the size of the list rather than its quality.
- How do I choose a substance misuse support agency in the Fylde council area?
- Start with what the regulator publishes, then ask what it cannot tell you: who would actually visit, whether it is the same carer each time, what happens when that person is ill, and how long a call really lasts. Every service here comes from the public register, and contacting one costs nothing: we take no fee and no commission.